The Times Herald from Port Huron, Michigan • Page 30

PORT HURON TIMES HERALD, Thursday, November 30, 1961 Census Reveals Farming's Big Role In District PACE THIRTY Year-End Boom On For Turkey, Tree Farmers Spending Alone lops 5 Million Agriculture Land Worth 58 Millions i Mil I II I I II I I II II in ---t j---- I i 41' n.fXft, seLj I it I rt-i tt)r '1 -fr-fvr I 1 I trees also usually find a ready By LOIS MCKEE United Press International LANSING LTD Two varieties of farmers in Michigan enjoy a narket for all they can provide. The heavy demand for turkeys started with the Thanksgiving holiday end usually maintains a strong level throughout the end of the year. during the past weekend on roads heading to points south, west and east. Michigan's annual turkey consumption amounts to more than 54 million pounds, according to Gene C. Foster, an animal feeds sales manager from Lowell.

Turkeys raised in the state also by PAUL COI RTER 'Timfi Herild Rfportri In this age of increasing urban and suburban living and decreas iboom in business at year's end I i i i ii mm i.i-i ing farm population, city dwellers often tend to forget the part agri- 'fare well in large city markets in rl 1 i i Cutting of Christmas trees also got under way within the last week or two. Truckload after truckload of cut trees were seen viiicagu, v.eveiai.u, ruisourgn, and Philadelphia, Foster said. for which they prepare during the rest of the year. The annual turkey production-in the state, estimated at 20 million pounds, doesn't come close to filling the demand for turkey meat in Michigan. Farmers who raise Christmas Grazing Permitted On '61 Feed Grain Program Acreage A recent change in 1961 feed grain program provisions now permits turning of livestock onto diverted acreage, Bruce Noble, chairman.

Sanilac County Agricul-iural Stabilization and Conserva Area 4-H Members Enter Livestock In Junior Show By JOHN H. HELLER 14-H Club Agent! More than 300 Michigan 4-H culture plays in the economy of the area. Farming, though, is a big business in the Blue Water District. In St. Clair County alone, the value of farmland was estimated at $58,376,000 in the 1959 agricultural census.

It has probably risen in the two years since the census was taken. COUNTY FARMERS spent about $5,188,500 in 1959 just for five basic expenses: Feed, buying livestock and poultry, machine and labor hire, seeds and petroleum products. Here'6 the breakdown: Feed, $1,620,975 Stork and poultry buying $1,051,766 Machine hire 419,885 Labor hire 816,305 Oil products 981,400 Seeds, bulbs, plants and trees 269,076 E. A. "Ned" Netherton, County extension agent, agriculture, estimates the annual total value of agricultural goods and services in St.

Clair County at $28,000,000 at WESTERN BEEF FOR FEEDER OPERATION and promoting the livestock industry. The yearly show attracts exhibitors from more than 30 counties throughout Michigan. Each 'animal will be auctioned Thursday to the highest bidder. Headquarters for the show will The Michigan National Bank of Port Huron sponsors one night's lodging for the County exhibitors, be the Sheraton-Cadillac Hotel. of the program high lights will be the annual banquet sponsored by the society, at which 'honors are presented and special i awards made to exhibitors.

two lio to feed the same number of cattle. Resides the foecYr cattle, 'ic farms 612 acres, much of which supplies and pasture. The only cash crop is wheat. Mr. O'Connor is one of a growing number of farmers who are turning to beef cattle feeding in Michigan.

(Times Herald Staff ROBKRT O'CONNOR. 7935 Rabcock Road, Jedrlo, looks over some of the fi25 beef tattle he had shipped in from the western stales recently. Mr. O'Connor said he will feed high moisture corn this winter for the second year. With self-unloading wagons, two men ran feed 625 rattle in 30 minutes ive years ago, Mr.

O'Connor said, it took four men at least Rat Campaign Scheduled In County tion Committee, said. He explained that the action was taken to permit farmers to carry out customary after-harvest salvage through turning livestock onto cropland acreages from now until the end of the year without being put to unreasonable expense for protective fencing in cases where diverted acres might be in the same field. The authorization has been extended to all 1961-program diverted acreages in order to treat all participants in the program on the same basis. In most areas, the important period of protection of the diverted acreages has passed, and there is little chance at this time that conservation cover could be severely damaged by releasing livestock on the rembers will enter $100,000 worth 1 of prize livestock at the thirty-second Annual Detroit Junior Livestock Show, Dec. 5-7.

There will be fourteen 4-H'crs from St. Clair County exhibiting and selling their choice steers at this unique affair. They are: Alvin McNaughton, North Street; Robert Lockwood, Jeddo; Karen Lockwood. Jeddo; David Robert-json, Jeddo; Gordon Radford, I Jeddo; Charlene Radford, Jeddo; Dale Parraghi, Jeddo; Stewart Glenn, North Street; Mary Sue North Street; Donald Mclntyre. North Street; Tim Clarke.

Yale; Joe Miller III. Glen Winn, Richmond; and John Zydral, Smiths Creek. Accompanying (he group will be John Radford, 4-H Leader and John H. Heller, 4-H Club agent. The event is jointly sponsored the 4-H Club department of I Michigan State University in cooperation with the Detroit junior livestock society.

The society of-i fers more than $2,000 in prizes and i provides the 4-H'ers with the "red welcome with some redmont station test at the Upper squill on Dec. 7th and 8th, I Peninsula experiment station at By SIM PYNNONKN i Count I'lxtciinion Dlrrrlori The elevators of St. Clair Conn- A favorite rat killing recipe is: Chatham. the wholesale level. The junior livestock show offers each boy or girl who attends a chance to develop a sense of responsibility, to have an educational experience both in showing and selling, to meet and make new friends, and to learn the advantages and disadvantages of the livestock industry.

'ty arc stocked with premixed red .3 u.s reci s(mil. 13! uat; tin nnnarpnt differ- When the products leave jauc.8iMveu.e-.,, Mn V(11 --v. examination of milk samples monthly and at each occurrence if mastitis. Both the strip cup and GMT proved to be valuable tools for detecting mastitis, and these findings agreed closely with the microscopic examination of milk samples. Researchers used 32 bred heifers in the experiment to provide cattle of known mastitis history from farm thev are valued at about k.uui.u iron to, i in tne mim proaucuon, inn- $12 000.000 The remaining $16,000, iof ra's- are promo.

ing a Coun- of rolpd oatSi 4 lbs of of mastitis or number of 000 is added on by processors and 'y1 Vnm De0- 4f' mixed thoroughly. Roll into services required for conception vnur eiinnh sn VOU ran Ret OUt a KIU iV, iV. 1- 1. 1 1 Biuoii woiia iras man mi inin uijDeiween neiiers icu soyoecui iueai Ireal "Rat Banquet" on Dec. 7th diameter and place in runways iad those fed corn gluten meal and nth.

We hope to kill 300,000 unfjer boxes, boards, bales, etc. Ias a source of protein, 'rats in the county. Rats like privacy. I The indicence of mastitis was Prcbait to improve the kill. This 'very low for the heifers fed both first calving.

One-half were fed a farms to utilize crop residue in the normal manner. The chairman said that the main purpose of the feed grain program was to remove corn and grain Farm News is done by placing small amounts THK WINTER feedinG routine rnt inns nnH thprp uns nn ration containing snvbean of unpoisoned food kitchen scraps aeajn uiih us and alone with ion. Mfaroni-e heJu-pmi rations Imeal. The others were fed a sim- Memphis Local Meeting Monday The annual meeting of the Memphis Local, Michigan Milk Producers Association, will be held at 7:30 p.m. Monday in the Memphis Youth Center, N.

L. Peterson, director of membership relations, will 'speak. Supper will be served. will do" along runways for a few it chance of causing- Evidence of mastitis was de-lilar ration containing corn gluten nights prior to the campaign. Pick 0ff.favor jn milk.

Off-flavors in tected by use of the strip cut at'meal as the source of protein, up the uneaten bait and replace mjik from bulk tanks is more each milkine. the California mas-1 The experiment is planned to distributors after assembling, wRh PoiJoned bait he cam -difficult to distinguish than in titis test (CMT. and microscopic continue for two more years. sorghum land from crop production this year to help reduce the supply of feed grains. Grazing of the diverted acreages was not permitted after the close of the program signup in late May.

carpet" treatment when they arrive in Detroit. The society is headed by a group of businessmen in the Detroit area who are interested both in helping youth Bnn earn iai you cans, bilacc causes most 01 me 1 this mucn off-flavor problem. The trouble uiaciuring me gixtus into nnisiiuu frw.l nmrlMr-t, said damage in one year starts from improper feeding of RATS ARE NOT HIGH TYPE GUESTS i roiiow up me ivi-u ouiii vmu. a Ulls popular roughage. When si- good anticoagulant bait contain- feeding is done after milk- vvun Illllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllilllllllllllllllllilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllilllll the land area of the County is ing warfarin' fumarin.

or the like jng. there is a great improvement A rat eats about 50 pounds of are later intended for man and being farmed, there are et complete cleanup. milk flavor. ifeed a year. domestic animals." Tkl.

ungp U'i ha a KaH rut people who work in agriculture-! Seventy rats eat as much asi Each rat eliminates about 701 a day and about of urine in six! connected jobs and living in the 7'r'u iu 0,1 1 uai an average dairy cow. City than there are farmers who w'lt' th adviante 0 did not have any apparent effectf h' bj actually work the soil, Mr. Nether-i we compk on rate 0 droppings in three quarts months most nf it nn nr arnitnd 1 inn caul iioj vv.7i, 111c win 111 ucfiiy ill 0 ii iLlliiictf 1 oicilt; Here are a few facts about fnnj agricultural experi-1 moving innoors. uive mem a university rats from a bulletin by U.S. Fish Two rodent pellets per pint of unfi wiini in Miruifo urofiuinr i More than half the 15.000 rural residents of the County are nonfarmcrs, he said.

Research Officer To Speak At Sanilac Program v. is regarded by some as control researchers: the maximum tolerance for Rodent filth consists of saliva, marketing as human food. Using urine, droppings, hair and their this as a guide, each pair of rats lown decomposed bodies. Rats deDosits enoueh dronnines in one No County figures are available on the labor force percentage taken up by farming, but on the; Klate level. 40 ner cent of the Research on Parade," a pro- will he introduced by Frank also pick up and transport other day to make a bushel of grain presented by Frank Tcu- 1,111 nindn, uecjierviiie, cnair- fjith on their tails, feet and fur.

unfit for milling purposes. 1,. kr.i fitfiA ic in ton, research information olli "-w are meuia lor parasites, ana. me isn and Wildlile service aciiculture-connecled work mission. disease carrying organisms.

'men say the daily movements of Campbell, of About 80 per cent of a rat's a rat may take it from the cer '(r tne vbDA. will highlight Rpv james ONLY 8 PER CENT of the total the twenty-sixth annual Sanilac tne Presbyterian ibodily excretion occurs while it sewer to the oantrv. and that worn cuKiimu county dairy banquet, to be church, will give the invoca-farming. About 12 per cent is M(m jn lhc l)f(n the farm supply industry, and 20 cent in processing and is leeding. competition for survival is keen, feeding sites are also scenes of bloody fighting, hair-pulling and killing.

The bulletin says, "In addition to eating vast quantities of food per a nasium. farm products, of tribution "the vermin crawling on its diseased body today may be biting and infecting some person tomorrow, or that the rat may be biting and infecting some person tomorrow rats have been responsible for more deaths than all the wars of history." win siiik. Robert Converse, vocal in- Michigan Stale University survey Eugene VV. Carman, Decker-. stmetor for the Sandusky Com ville, will be toaslmastcr.

He will munity bvhools, group singing. direct materials, rodents also contaminate even greater amounts that shows. Mr. Netherton said farming Is unlike many other big Industrie in that it utilizes almost totally products and services sold in the County. 3Er.Holly1)erry Today's Almanac "The St.

Clair County farmer lllllllllllillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllMlllllllllllllllllllllilliiiiiiiiiiii; FARMERS 2 Be sure to listen to these two daily programs that your Master Mix Feed Dealers are bringing to you over WTTH looks to local businesses to supply! him with his production needs of, petroleum products, I. 'Bv Unuril err IntrrtiMloiiah Today is Thursday, Nov the "Make it a Green Christmas" IIIMICIUIIJ, Vll'lll Kill, III- I I ,1 3.14th (lav of the year with .11 to tilizer and feeds. In addition, he 1 spends at local retailers for family in living expenses," Mr. Netherton! The moon is in its last quarter. suid.

The morning star is Venus. An idea of the size of the farm-: culim are implement and equipment sales operation in the County perhaps 1,1111 can best be shown by quoting! ()n AW 111 6:30 a.m. Open Your Christmas Savings Here! In 17fl2, preliminary peace art i- some figures from the farm MEWS 12:40 (noon) FARM MARKET REPORT AND (In Person or By Mail) 5 minute summary of all the latest news clcs ending the American-British Revolutionary War were signed in Paris In tii3'J, the Hiisso-Finiiish began after the Soviet Union failed to obtain territorial comics-: sions from Finland. In the Chinese Commu-j; nisls captured Chungking, China. jE In lliM, the prime minister of the Tnion of South Africa, Dan- iel Miilan, resigned and was cceded by Johannes Strydoin, nn census.

In 19M, St. Clair County farmers owned: l.OfiS milkers. 1,030 electric milk coolers. 40 crop driers. 1,073 conveyors.

1,3011 grain combines. S73 corn-pickers. 703 pick-up balers. 3fi3 lorage harveter. wheel type trac tor.

7C crawler-type tractor. 37R garden tractors. l.KIJ trucks. Both programs broadcast Monday thru Saturday, and sponsored by these Master Mix Feed Dealers: AVOCA ELEVATOR, Avoca BAD AXE GRAIN Applegatt BROWN CITY ELEVATOR, Brown City COLUMBUS ELEVATOR, Columbus FARMERS ELEVATOR, Richmond HARPER ELEVATOR CO, Peck KERR GRAIN HAY, Melvin MEMPHIS COOPERATIVE, Memphis These figuies and others in the extreme nationalist. agricultural census tend to bear; out Mr.

Nethcrton'i statement; A thought fur the day: "The that "the farm buyer is a potent Spanish writer Cervantes said; package of purchasing "There Is no sauce in the world CITIZENS FEDERAL C. H. RUNCIMAN SANILAC DIVISION and li an imKrtant part of the like hunger." Cartonville, Snover, Tyra and Palms County economy LEGAL Schoolman lo Address Group H. VV. Wkkett, former super-lindent of Marlettc High DIAL- SAVINGS Port Huron B'ni Hltfliwoy CimimlMlorir John C.

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